Professional Positions

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2015 -
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Biomedical Graduate Studies Group, 2013 -
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2008 - 2015

Education

PhD (Organic Chemistry), Brown University, Providence, 1996
BSc (Hons), St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, 1991

APS Service

Makineni Lectureship Committee (2017-2018)
Makineni Lectureship Award Committee (2022-2023)

Awards & Honors

Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in Research, Sigma Xi Research Honor Society, 1995
Skaggs Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Scripps Research Institute, June 1996-September 1998
Vice President, Society of Fellows, The Scripps Research Institute, June 1997-September 1998
Teaching with Technology Fellow, Center for Teaching Excellence and Academic Technology, Tufts University, 1999
Guest Professor, Sonderforschungsbereich 424, Westfälische Wilhelms–Universität, Münster, Germany, Aug 2000
Tufts Chemistry Faculty Achievement Award, Fall 2000
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2001 [Declined because of overlap]
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2002
Tufts Faculty Achievement Award, Fall 2003
MIT Technology Review Magazine TR35 Award, 2003
DuPont Young Professor Award, 2003–2006, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
BASF Distinguished Lectureship, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 2004
NSF Panel on Molecular Basis of Life Processes, Oak Ridge, TN 2004
Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, Technology Investigation Award, 2005
Tufts Teaching Excellence Award, Fall 2005
Global Indus Technovator Award, MIT IBC, 2006
Tufts Faculty Achievement Award, Fall 2009
Award for Excellence in the Chemical Sciences, 2011, Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists
Elected Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), 2012
Guest Professor, Sonderforschungbereich 803, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, 2015,
Lecturer, Graduiertenkollegs 1582 | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, and Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, 2015
Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award, Tufts Graduate School of AS&E, 2015
Tufts Faculty Achievement Award, Spring 2018
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018
Elected Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors, 2023

Krishna Kumar
Secretary
Robinson Professor of Chemistry
Tufts University